The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-11-02

triumphed, but only for the time. What else
can be meant What other Interpretation
can be put upon these extracts from the
speech of General jackson at Macon, which
should be daily repeated until their full sig
nifcance be apprehendedf
''The principle for which we fought, the
only principle of government expressive
enough to meet the requirements of advanc-
ing civilization made, of late by Gladstone's
eloqusnce, so familiar to European thought,
was American born. Red with the blood of
confederate heroes, moist with the tears of
confederate widows and orphans, eastward
shall it continue to roll, carrying with it the
blessed light Of the Christian civilization all
round the globe, and SO surely as it moves it
shall bring the day of a final triumph. In
that triumphal procession Abraham Lincoln
shall not move as the rightful President but
Jefferson Davis, the so-called traitor, leader
Of the so-called lost cause"
"False, indeed, must be the historic muse
to her clearest duty, if all things being fairly
considered-the parties, the surroundings, the
resuts-she fail to hand it [slavery] down to
future times as the gentlest. and by far the
most civilizing and humanizing relationship
ever borne by labor to capital
And the following, from a speech of one of
the orators of the Robert E. Lee monument
ceremonies at Richmond:
'If we look for moment at the result of
the method of composing the troubles of the
country in 1861. adopted by Mr.. Lincoln, |
do not think that much encouragement will
be found to resort to it again"
The South should not mistake the temper
of the North. No one in the North desires
the people of the South to forget their
heroism and their sacrifices during the war.
No one wants them to forget the memory of
their dead, or to cease to revere them with
all the warmth of flial affection. 1t would
be unnatural to expect anything less than
that from the fathers and mothers and
wives, and sons, and daughters of the South.
No one in the North expects the South to re-
gard their dead as traitors and rebels. The
North did not so regard them, and did not so
treat them. AS to the head of their re-
bellion and a few others, the facts of his
traitors, but conspirators well, against the
government they were pretending to
serve, and whose substance they did
not hesitate to appropriate to their
own use But nobody in the North desires
to impose this belief on any one in the South.
We are quite content to leave that to history,
and to preserve reasonable complacency while
they gush over even Jeff Davis. But what
the North does insist upon, and will forever
insist upon so long as its people are worthy
their name and heritage, is that the cause for
which the South fought was mistaken one
and that, together with the North, they should
be Loyalty glad it was unsuccessful, and, to-
gether with the North, be ready to march to
the music of the Union, with their faces to the
future, no longer hugging the body of death
that for so long has hampered their splendid
advance as part of solid Union and solid
Nation. Until the South is ready to agree to
this much, and shall forever cease to ''wake"
the memory of their lost cause, so long will
there be no homogeneity, but instead sectional
ism and bloody shirt-but it will be Southern
sectionalsm and Southern bloody shirt, as
it has been from the very beginning, even to
the rresent dav